Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Truth is not private property.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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